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balderdash9, in Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk’s multiple messes

The big addition in this edition is a rebuilt search facility. That matters, because it’s something users expect to just work. Mastodon 4.2 has therefore made it possible to search for users using by words in their bio and their names. “The most exciting news is that for the first time, you can now search for posts,” Rochko wrote

That’s the main point of the article. Damn, when did clickbait become so ubiquitous?

ImplyingImplications, in US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills

Two years is probably worth it when the alternative was being forced to raise a grandchild she did not want for the next 18+ years

tsonfeir,
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Everything about this comment is depressing.

jasory,

You mean like how individuals are supposedly forced to raise their grandchildren for 18+ years?

In the US you aren’t even forced to raise your own children, you can surrender them to the state if you really can’t take care of them.

Yeah, the dishonesty is depressing. Let’s just ignore that they are implying that a parent should be able to decide if their children reproduce, wouldn’t want people to become grandparents against their wishes!

tsonfeir,
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I mean, those are the two options. Jail or a life raising a kid no one wanted.

jasory,

Yes, the only two options. You realise we are talking about grandparents? Grandparents have no innate legal guardianship over there grandchildren, it’s simply a social norm that they take care of them (often eagerly).

The second option isn’t even required of biological parents who are innate legal guardians let alone grandparents. I already said this once so the fact that you willfully ignored it is telling.

Also 18 years isn’t life, leave it to pro-abortion people to lie about the severity of everything simply to justify a personal convenience.

Nothing said here is true, and it’s so ironic that the Guardian makes a sob piece about this when what they did is illegal in most countries. (Including the UK where the Guardian is based).

tsonfeir,
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I’m a little bit confused, which side are you on?

jasory,

The side of reality? Even if you support an outcome, you are under zero obligation to support everything that leads to that outcome either directly or incidentally.

It may be a fact that the Earth is somewhat spherical, but someone that comes to this conclusion using astronomical data is not equivalent to someone to determines that the Earth is a sphere because oranges are also spheres.

Even if you support the pro-choice position it’s easy to see that many claims and assumptions made are simply false. This is true for essentially every commonly held belief, the vast majority of people couldn’t even develop the scientific method independently.

tsonfeir,
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Still confused, and it sounds like you’re being purposefully vague.

Be more specific:

Should the person go to jail? Yes or no.

Are you for or against a woman’s ability to have an abortion? For or against

jasory,

I’m actually not being purposely vague, you can tell pretty easily. The fact is that it doesn’t matter, so long as the actual criticism is valid.

“Should the person go to jail”- legally, of course.

Practically, probably not. Even though it was a clearly premeditated action, people are simply more sympathetic to certain types of people. This is why people will save their friends before strangers, it is not a question of morality that determines if your friends are more valuable, it’s purely psychology. Likewise people are more concerned about the person they see complaining about a minor inconvenience than the death toll of a famine. People will always fall for a victimisation narrative (everyone on this post is doing just that) so long as the “victim” is more appealing to them. Adult humans are just simply more appealing than fetuses, so incidents like these serve to whip up a frenzy despite the fact that virtually everyone agrees with the moral arguments against late-term abortion. (The majority of people openly oppose it, and those that don’t probably agree with a formal description of the argument, and just want to white knight).

“For or against a woman’s ability to have an abortion”

Nobody has any right to take conscious action to deprive others of future conscious experience, so long as it does not deprive themselves of future conscious experience. This is a fairly succinct claim that addresses the permissibility of killing the temporarily comatose, the suicidal, and individuals with ambiguous self-worth. (None of it is permissible, and consequently neither is abortion of a healthy fetus).

tsonfeir,
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Got it. I don’t agree. Goodnight.

jasory,

Of course you don’t agree, would I have said a word if you did?

Unlike you I find no utility in circle jerking over something I already believe with a group of other dishonest morons.

tsonfeir,
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Good thing you’re a minority. 🤪

squarm,

I adore that you either didnt read or didn’t comprehend the first paragraph of the article and then twist it to fit into your delusions. Its really cute. No critical thinking skills, just vibes. What a life. Honestly enviable.

exohuman, in From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections in the U.S.
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Why are they so dead set on doing evil?

WHYAREWEALLCAPS,

Because it costs less. Treating animals like they do/did/want to requires less labor and less overhead costs so higher profits.

HubertManne, in From cage-free chicks to puppy mills and Avian flu: Republicans are trying to roll back animal protections in the U.S.
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At their best republicans are pretty crappy but its super villian in a lair stuff like this which makes it impossible for me to understand how anyone can vote for this party.

spacecowboy,

Because there are a lot of people who are villains, Hubert. A lot.

palordrolap, in Rupert Murdoch, media mogul and force behind Fox, steps down

Unfortunately, his son Lachlan is said to be pretty much equivalent, which if true, means not much will change.

It'd be great if Lachy has been pulling a massive bait-and-switch on his dad, but that'll be the most laughably naïve hope I've had in a while.

A big twist could be that he actually does this but then goes back on it the moment the shock kills off his dad. Sweet, sweet, early inheritance. Very Murdochian. And forty more days of winter years of Fox being Fox for the rest of us.

StarServal, in Disney CEO says company will 'quiet the noise' in culture wars
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Worked for Bud Light

...oh wait

ampersandrew,
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It didn't take Kid Rock much time at all to get back with his ex.

CeruleanRuin, in U.S., Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

Fuck Texas.

Audrey0nne, in U.S., Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

Operation Paperclip was a resounding success and these are the fruits it bears.

Clangbang, in Protester who held sign outside London climate trial prosecuted

As a Canadian with a similar legal system to the UK, I’m shocked reading about the judicial overreach of the UK government and their attempt to squash dissent.

It’s been over a decade of torie rule in the UK. It’s hard to imagine what would be required for enough people in the UK to vote them out if it hasn’t happened yet.

LineNoise, in Conservative advocacy group targets race-based admissions at West Point - UPI.com

Considering the US far right’s evident interest in insurrection it’s almost a little surprising this wasn’t the lead case. The more non-white military officers the more difficult it would be for US fascists to put together an openly white supremacist coup.

cozz33,

Not wanting race to be a factor in admissions is a conservative thing these days?

lowdownfool, in With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways
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I would like to hear from those that downvoted this: why do you support fascism?

Itty53, in Scientists call for a tree planting drive to help tackle heat waves
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This is important for managing heat on a human level in cities. So I'm not saying this is stupid.

But don't get this twisted: This is useless for addressing the climate change problem. It's not even a bandaid on a stab wound, this is equivalent to offering someone bleeding out a glass of warm water and fanning them with a brochure about new plastic doodads. A trillion trees planted tomorrow wouldn't even be a pebble on the pavement to that SUV flying down the fiery freeway.

HubertManne, in Why healthcare workers are worried about possible changes to masking protocols in hospitals
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All health care settings should require masks all around all the time at this point. It would be the best way to blunt spikes or new outbreaks without a more general mask mandates.

stopthatgirl7, in Scientists call for a tree planting drive to help tackle heat waves
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I really hope more cities do this.

Gorejelly, in With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways
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I don't understand why every news source has to give dump so much more time than anyone else. Who cares what he said this time. It's the same thing every time. I guess it gets them more views (by what metric? Nielson?). CNN even said after dump's first win that maybe they shouldn't have given him about triple the coverage of every other candidate from both sides combined. In the interim years, CNN has still had more dump than even the current president.

This is why I do not watch news anymore. But, it matters little. Humanity, please continue our speed run to extinction.

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